Frequency of pleural effusions in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with connective tissue diseases

Chest

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 42-47

  Luo, Yi Feng ^a,b   Robbins, Ivan M ^b   Karatas, Mevlut ^b,c   Brixey, Anupama G ^b   Rice, Todd W ^b   Light, Richard W ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Trabzon Ahi Evren Thorasic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INDEX; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERODERMA; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 79958839886     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.10-0227     Document Type: Article

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